About Us

TechPulse Group is one of the UK’s fastest growing IT Channel Services organisations – investing in our partnerships with resellers, distributors and OEM vendors to create increased relevance, accelerated growth, and sustainable and profitable innovation across the channel.

NodeOne is one of the UK’s leading providers of professional, implementation and field services to the IT channel; with a dedicated in-house team of UK and international based field engineers, and access to a wider network of technical specialists. Our highly-accredited engineering team, our investment in the latest skills, our relationships with some of the leading OEM vendors, and our commitment to the highest service levels, tools and processes, gives partners the confidence to trust us to deliver any size, scale or complexity of projects, across Networking, Wireless, UC and Data Centre infrastructure, software and services.

PowerIT was founded in 2010 to help technology vendors incubate, establish, develop and accelerate their UK and European business opportunities. Working with vendors in SMB and Enterprise networking, storage and servers, through to Connected IoT Health, we are uniquely placed to represent our vendors and execute on strategy development, sales planning, business development and telemarketing, channel identification and development, marketing and online, online sales, supply chain management, service and support strategies.

NetTranslate turn today’s intelligent digital IT infrastructure into a treasure trove of valuable and actionable business insights, dramatically increasing the return on investment in Wi-Fi networks, and providing unique insights for business stakeholders and rich and personalised connectivity experiences for customers, citizens, students, or patients. NetTranslate brings together a unique combination of skills across wired and wireless networks, in-door navigation, mobile experience, data analytics and application development and integration, security, cloud management and automation, and partnerships with the industry’s leading OEM vendors.

Our Senior Team

Steve Kirby

Group Managing Director

Steve Kirby is best known in the IT and Infrastructure Services Industry as the co-founder of The NetCrowd, which went on to become one of the leading professional services and support businesses in the UK before its successful sale to The Daisy Group in January 2013. He is presently Co-Founder and Group Managing Director of Techpulse, a group of technology businesses which consist of MindPulse, The ContentWall, CyberCrowd, TechForce, BrightPulse Recruitment and Power IT 2 Channel. Steve also mentors startup businesses through an association with Birmingham Innovation Centre.

Steve is a long term advocate, supporter and one of the single largest donators to “Dreams Come True” the UK children’s charity and most recently has taken the position as Chairman of the Fundraising Board.

Steve’s main hobby is golf, but is also a self confessed petrol head, both of which come second to a busy family life.

Trevor Rolls

Non Executive Chairman

Having spent the last 25 years in the Networking Industry, Trevor has built and sold two businesses in this sector. Firstly, an integrator, Prime to 2e2 in 2004 and then more recently Netcrowd, a channel services business to Daisy Group.

Trevor Rolls is the Chairman of the TechPulse Group of companies, a collective of Technical biased companies consisting of MindPulse, The ContentWall, CyberCrowd, TechForce, Bright Pulse Recruitment and Power IT.

As part of MindPulse Trevor is presently Non Executive Chairman of Ocean Group, a cloud Services Provider,; Derive Logic, a leader on the Software Asset Management space, and Generate UK a leading Digital Marketing Agency. In addition to these current engagements Trevor successfully exited Purestone, a separate Digital Marketing Agency, with a share sale back to the founders and currently holds a position with an independent specialist Enterprise Management business.

Trevor is an avid tennis player and a former county golfer but can be found at his happiest tending to his lawn and spending time with the family.

Chris Green

Chris joined as the CFO for TechPulse Group in February 2017. He is responsible for the financial management of all the companies within the group, as well as heading up the financial aspects of MindPulse’s non-executive services.

Before joining TechPulse, Chris was FC at a leading SaaS provider and prior to that held the position of Commercial Director at an organisation providing Software Asset Management advisory services.

Originally qualifying in practice, Chris was awarded two commendations by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants for placing 9th in the world for two examinations. After making the move into industry, Chris’ career has been focussed within the technology sector gaining experience in M&A, financing and due diligence.

Jake Cornford

Jake Cornford has been working in the IT channel alongside manufacturers, resellers and end users for more than 20 years. This wealth of experience has allowed Jake to gain a deep understanding of the market and an appreciation for customer’s needs at every stage of the delivery chain. Involved in the successful growth of a number of businesses, he knows that the delivery of a quality service sits at the very core of trusted partnerships.

Will Kirby

Having experienced the growth of a successful channel business in a variety of roles including service delivery, support and professional services, William Kirby is responsible for the future direction of the business as part of the senior management team. As the original founder, William’s role includes building a sustainable and efficient operation capable of delivering service excellence and commercial reactiveness.

Phil Ward

With over 25 years experience in networking and channel services, Phil is responsible for driving strategy and business growth for NodeOne. Phil’s previous experience has been gained at Phoenix IT Services, NetCrowd, Systems Maintenance Services along with roles in a number of leading industry OEM vendors.

Mike Robinson

Mike started his career in the LANCare department, working for networking specialist Cabletron Systems. He then progressed to BEA Systems, selling Enterprise software solutions to the finance sector.

After spells at Software AG, Energis and an Aruba reseller, Mike went on to co-found his own Digital agency, successfully exiting after 9 years of growth. During that time, he was involved with new customer acquisition and delivery.

Mike has a keen interest in technology, specifically in how it can be used to enhance or develop us. This links very well to Mike’s other passion, which is Triathlon, where access to power or heart rate analytics can inform a training program.

Outside of the office, Mike likes to spend time with his family, travel and take part in endurance events. Top of his list of targets is a Channel Swim.

Mark Power

Managing Director (PowerIT)

Mark Power has spent 25 years working in the IT manufacturing space, most recently as the founder and owner of PowerIT-2-Channel Ltd. Set up in 2010 to offer new emerging and established manufacturers a risk free solution for entering the European Channel.

Formerly the Managing Director of Netgear UK from 2001 to 2010 he guided the SMB/Consumer manufacturer from $4m p.a. revenue to $250m p.a. revenues, dominating the consumer, SOHO, small to medium size market and the Telco space.

Other brands he has mentored since setting PowerIT include TP-Link, QNAP, Tripplite, ioSafe and iHealth all having benefited from his knowledge of the market and his experience in setting up channels.

Mark possesses a wide network of friends, colleagues and associates within the sector which have helped him and others around him.

He describes himself as a friendly, calm person who enjoys family time, golf, running and he also coaches one of the junior rugby teams at Newbury RFC.